Music center (Nuremberg)

First published in 1983

The Music Center Nuremberg eV (MUZ) is a scene network and label of national importance for music makers and music lovers in the Greater Nuremberg .

It represents the interests of over 400 individual members who each represent one or more bands, but also initiatives and associations from the Middle Franconia district .

history

The Nuremberg Music Center was created in the summer of 1983 from the joint bundling of the activities of:

Association founded in 1982 to promote the Nuremberg music scene and that of the city youth welfare office of the city of Nuremberg.

While the club, which had around 300 members at the time, was primarily looking for real estate suitable for band practice rooms, the city of Nuremberg - youth care department organized another talent competition in 1983 after a long time.

In the summer of 1983, the closing event under the motto “Chance '83” took place in the auditorium of the Johannes-Scharrer-Gymnasium in Nuremberg . The winning bands received material prizes, study trips and studio time for a semi-professional studio production. These were released as a joint long-playing record "Chance '83" in the early summer of 1984, with part of the sales proceeds and the assets of the friends' association going to the newly founded Musikzentrale eV .

Chance '83 long player front cover

In April 1984, a benefit concert for the newly founded association was held at KOMM and a compilation of the festival was released as the long-playing record "Chance '84".

From 1985 the members' magazine Zentralnerv appeared as a print medium , in 2002 for the 100th time and in 2006 the 119th edition for the last time.

In 1986 the office in the GOST leisure center in the Gostenhof district was opened; the Franconian rock archive in Hochstrasse was established; Today it has more than 5,000 sound carriers

In 1987 the office moved to Kernstrasse.

In the 1980s, the MUZ had a nationwide model character (Schano et al. 2007)

In 1997 the Rockzentrale Franken association was also founded.
In 1999 the music center got its first radio broadcast on afk max .
2006 the MUZ has been organizing the Lorenzer Platz stage of the Bardentreffen since then .
2007 Live Club was MUZclub opened in October of the same year the MUZstudio . In the MUZclub WebRadio , titles are played by artists who performed or will appear live in the MUZclub. In addition to local bands, national bands are also among the performers.

tasks and goals

Musikzentrale e. V. supports various projects, services and the network work of the music center. As a recognized independent youth welfare organization, the association continues to work closely with the youth welfare office of the city of Nuremberg and is financed up to a third from city subsidies. In addition, the Musikzentrale has been subsidized by the Central Franconia district since 2011 . The long and medium-term goal of the Musikzentrale is to work with those responsible from the fields of youth, culture and business to build and establish a functioning funding structure for popular music and its actors. In this context, the Musikzentrale sees itself as a representative of the regional music scene and wants to bundle their interests and act according to the respective needs. The main task is to keep the existing resources of the network accessible to all members and to pass on knowledge and experience. The priority, however, is to always initiate new modules and future projects to promote music and to intensify media presence.

Notable collaborations exist with the Weinturm Open Air , the Bridge Festival and the Mini Skirt Festival of the AZ Nürnberg and Radio Gong 97.1 .

Overview of the work of the music center

Operation of the MUZ in Nuremberg-Gostenhof
Information and assistance on the subject of music
MUZstudio
MUZclub (with 160 m²)
MMS (musician rental service / PA and stage rental)
Rehearsal room management (over 60 rooms in the greater Nuremberg area)
Belt bus service
Metropol - Hit parade (together with Radio Z 95.8)
Tape archive
Cooperation and networking with regional organizers, associations and institutions
Online platform (www.musikzentrale.com)
Workshops (e.g. GEMA, Booking & Promotion, GbR etc.)
Funding projects to establish the local and regional music scene (band exchange, band tour, etc.)
Promotion of newcomers (close cooperation with youth cultural institutions and band competitions, e.g. NN rock stage, local heroes etc.)
Cross-regional networking through participation in a wide variety of cultural associations and committees

Known members

Ernst Schultz , The Great Bertholinis , Lena Dobler , Nail, The Robocop Kraus , Shiny Gnomes , Yambalaya , Yucca , Sonny Hennig , La-Boum , El Mago Masin

Discography

( LC 31001)

Publishing year	title	Sound carrier	Performers
1984	Chance '83	LP	One Wall Free, Bosch Band, Roli Müller, Strahler 80, Regenneger
1985	Chance '84 (live)	LP	Fools 'n' Friends, Corolorum, The Bank, Brainhammer, Friedemann & Volker, Minimal Einstein, AT4, Now Life
1996	Desperate Folk and Beat Collection	CD	Fit & Limo , The Traveling Playmates, Westwood Symphony, Fred Is Dead
2014	Whiteboy Blue	CD	Van Bluus
2014	Igualdad	CD	Igualdad
2014	A thousand drops of water	CD	Blood Pump & The Iron Shirt
2014	Party hard	CD	Six finger jacket
2014	Updated: The Music of the 60ies	CD	Hot cargo
2014	Setagaya	CD	Lena Dobler
2014	Carousels	CD	Jetpack Elephants
2014	Mixtape Vol. 3	CD	Mujuku
2016	Fuji Disco	CD	Lena Dobler

Awards

2012: Citizens' Prize of the Sparkasse Nürnberg in connection with the Working Group of the Citizens and Suburban Associations of Nuremberg (AGBV eV) in the category "Everyday Heroes"

literature

Rainer Mertens : Musikzentrale eV In: Michael Diefenbacher ; Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . Nuremberg: W. Tümmels Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( available online )
Martin Schano: Stepping stone into the limelight - the music center promotes talent. In: Nuremberg Today. Edition 88, 2007. P. 56 ff. ( Available online )
Portrait of the music center and the Nuremberg popular music scene , supplement to the meeting of the youth welfare committee on March 24, 2011